[Maxima-discuss] Maxima documentation page, was: New Website for the new year

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM Richard Fateman <fa...@gm...> wrote:

> I'm ok with listing the book-length treatments or published books in
> one section.  The apparently random selection of papers could be
> re-thought.  Why should the Heun equation paper be raised up above
> the hundreds of other papers?  Why is Avgoustis' 1977 MIT masters' thesis
> in there, as opposed to (say) numerous PhD dissertations?

I probably put many or most of the items on that list ... The papers
that are listed on the documentation page are whatever was encountered
in the course of working on other stuff or talking about stuff on the
mailing list. If you or anybody knows about items more deserving of
attention, please, by all means, put them on there! Or find someone to
do it for you, that's all A-OK.

> I checked one unfamiliar reference (by Lutus) which begins
>
> This page has been superseded -- I now recommend Sage
> ...........

Haha, yup. A lot of stuff is out of date. It would be great if someone
would check all the links, cut out stuff that's now irrelevant or
obsolete, maybe reassess the importance of stuff and reorder the list,
etc. I spent a certain amount of time trying to get something useful
going, but I certainly wouldn't try to stop anyone from working on it
too! Let's all share the fun.

FWIW

Robert